Petrobras commissions ninth platform for presalt Búzios Field
Offshore staff
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Petrobras has contracted Keppel Shipyard to construct the ninth FPSO for the Búzios Field in the presalt Santos Basin offshore Brazil.
The P-80 will be one of the largest in Brazilian waters, designed to produce up to 225,000 bbl/d of oil, process up to 12 MMcm/d of gas and store more than 1.6 MMbbl of oil.
Keppel Offshore & Marine announced Aug. 15 its wholly owned subsidiary, Keppel Shipyard, won an international tender from the Brazilian national oil company for the engineering, procurement and construction of the P-80 FPSO for about $2.9 billion.
Petrobras plans 14 interconnected subsea wells, with seven producers and seven injectors.
P-80 should enter production in 2026 and will be the 28th system to operate in the presalt basin.
It will also be one of the company’s new generation of platforms featuring technologies to reduce CO2 emissions. These include a closed flare system that increases the use of the gas and prevents it from being burned into the atmosphere and a methane gas detection system capable of acting to prevent or mitigate the risk of leaks.
In addition, it will be equipped with CO2 capture, use and geological storage technology, designed to combine increased productivity with reduced carbon emissions.
Simultaneously with the construction, a digital twin will be developed of P-80, allowing for several remote simulations and virtual operational tests, simulating multiple scenarios in a safe way.
By the end of the 2020s, Petrobras expects Búzios to produce about 2 MMboe/d.
Four other FPSOs are under construction for the field: Almirante Barroso, Almirante Tamandaré, P-78 and P-79.
Petrobras’ partners in the field are CNOOC and CNODC.
08.15.2022
